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Showing posts with label medieval history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medieval history. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2014

Military History Photo Friday: Elaborate Renaissance Arms and Armor

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Here are a couple of fine pieces from The Wallace Collection , one of the best private collections of art in London. They have an especi...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Teutonic Treasures and Archaeology

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When I'm not blogging here, I often do guest blogs at other sites. Recently I did a post for the Black Gate blog on The Church and Tre...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: A German Halberd Pistol

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On my recent trip to Vienna I got to see some great museums. One of my favorites was the collection of Hapsburg arms and armor at the Neu...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

A Pagan Grove and Norman Church in Iffley, England

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As regular readers of this blog know, we spend our Easters and summers in Oxford. one of our favorite local places to visit is just a couple...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

A new country, a new blog, and a guest post about castles

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Hello from Oxford! Wait, wasn't I in Valencia? Why yes I was. Hard to keep up with me, isn't it? My family and I are enjoying our ...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Military History Photo Friday: Medieval Handgonnes in Slovenia

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When I started researching my book Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons , I discovered the Balkans were early adop...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Castles in Spain and Slovenia

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I was traveling in Italy and Slovenia for the past ten days and didn't get a chance to announce that another guest post of mine is up ...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Book Review: Legendary Beasts of Britain

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Legendary Beasts of Britain by Julia Cresswell My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Shire Books are short, heavily illustrated introductions to a...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Guest blogging about Spanish castles over at Black Gate

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I've done another guest post for the blog of Black Gate fantasy magazine. It's the first in a series about Spanish castles; this ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Military history of Tangier, Morocco

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So much has been going on this past week I forgot to mention that I did a guest post over at the Black Gate blog about Exploring the Defe...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

My travel writing on Gadling for August

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Being busy with a book deadline, I didn't contribute to the travel blog Gadling as much as I would have liked this past month. Still, I ...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Guest blogging about Byzantine magic over at Black Gate

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I've written a guest post for the Black Gate blog on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Magic . It features some of the photos I took at t...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Civil War Photo Friday: Civil War blockhouses used a medieval design

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In a previous Civil War Photo Friday I wrote about Union blockhouses , simple fortifications that proved effective against bushwhackers and ...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Siamese twins in the Middle Ages

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As I mentioned in my last post, I've been traveling in Greece writing a new series for Gadling called Our past in peril: Greek tourism f...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Traveling in Greece

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Hi everyone. I've been a bit silent this week and that's because I'm traveling in Greece! Gadling has sent me here to write a s...
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